Phillips Brooks Quotes

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

That's why I wrote 'Fighter'. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog.

Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it.

My mother always gives the best advice. When I left Puerto Rico to pursue my dreams, she always supported me and said to me, 'I'm never going to cut your wings, so don't let anyone else do that to you.' That has been my philosophy through life. I want to share that valuable lesson with my little girl someday.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

I want to be the best daughter and wife and friend and person I can be. And I want to help empower the people around me to be the best they can be.

You can always be stronger.

What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.

I think that's what it is with rock music. It helps you hang tough, I guess.

I'm quite a strong person, and I've become even stronger.

It will always be relevant and always be inspiring to see somebody turning themselves into a warrior.

There's nothing greater than just having people that pick you up when you get knocked down.

When people are depending on us, we end up finding strength we didn't know we had.

It's a very unique feeling - to be that strong and unbreakable. But I'm working towards it.

I think my mother was there all the time. Every time I thought I was almost dying and gave up hope in my life, I felt like she was whispering in my ear and asking me, 'Why are you doing this?'

I just want to share with everyone that no matter what challenges, adversities you face in life, that you can overcome them... and once you overcome those adversities, use your story, your testimony to others, to help others get through their storm.

Hope and encouragement, especially hope, is probably one of the greatest things you can give another person.

I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.

Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?

Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.